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April 22, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/world/middleeast/22iran.html

Decrying U.S., Iran Begins War Games

(New York Times) Nazila Fathi and David E. Sanger - Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, declared that President Obama's new nuclear strategy amounted to "atomic threats against Iranian people," and Iranian state television reported Thursday that its military had begun a large exercise in the Persian Gulf. The ayatollah's statement on Wednesday referred to the section of Obama's "Nuclear Posture Review" that guaranteed non-nuclear nations that they would never be threatened by a U.S. nuclear strike - as long as they are in compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty as judged by the U.S. Gary Samore, Obama's top adviser on unconventional weapons, insisted that this did not amount to a nuclear threat against Iran. The Iranian military began a three-day naval, ground and air war game in the Persian Gulf, including the Strait of Hormuz, through which a large amount of the world's oil passes.

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